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Posted by David McAdams on January 05, 2005 at 16:29:22 from (64.157.32.1):
In Reply to: Concrete posted by Hoosier JD on January 05, 2005 at 14:15:12:
Just my two cents worth, but I have done a lot of concrete work and have poured in both Alaska and Florida and a few states in between. You dont say where you live which would make a diffrence or what type of building you have I assume its a pole barn of some type. I wouldn't pour anything less than 6 inches if any type of equipment was going on it and I would never pour it thinner on the edges. If you live in a cold area use steel and lots of it. Make sure you keep your steel up off the ground while you are pouring. Put lots of steel in the edges and corners this will keep it from breaking out. On a slab I make the edge of the slab deeper and I angle the bottom so its wider at the base, like a mini footer. If you use rebar bend it to go around the corner edges making sure you have it long enough to get way around the corner. If you use wire mesh roll the mesh into round tubes, like you were going to use it to put around a garden plant and place that along the edges and wire it to the mesh in the rest of the slab. I use both rebar and mesh in my own buildings. My father always told me if your going to build something dont make it last for just you make it last for the next generations as well.
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